Kano immediately understood what Rorschach meant. After a moment's thought, he shook his head. "No, that won't work. There's no need for us to clean up this mess." In the commercially developed southern part of the continent, some Magic Towers also issued their own metal currency. Because of their advanced craftsmanship and low content of other metals, they were widely popular among the coastal city-states.
But things were different now. Valois had entered the age of paper money, and in Kano's mind, whoever issued the currency had to be responsible for its credit. As it stood, there was no credit! The Gold Lang was originally exchanged one-to-one with Gold Coins, but its value had already dropped to one and two-thirds Langs to one coin—and that was without a large-scale bank run.
